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freshwest

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11. There have been stochastic killings and assaults. People are not being allowed to assemble to do
Fri May 3, 2013, 12:03 PM
May 2013
lawful governmental activities with they or their representatives without being mobbed and even followed to their homes, their families threatened there or at work or schools.

This was most notably done in Wisconsin to attack those who were organizing the recall against Scott Walker, but it's a feature of all the areas with Koch money funding these folks.

We should stop dignifying them by calling them political activists, they are criminals and thugs. This is why we have so many low-life's getting elected because people who believe in government service as a higher calling are being shut out or have decided it's not worth the danger to life and limb.

So we have a legion of teabagger grifters and their supporters who are generally not well educated but see this as way to get ahead of the people they resent. Such as the effete intellectual liberals, just as the brown shirts saw the educated Jew in Germany.

This is the tawdry side of fascism where you have to know someone to get anything. No due process or equal treatment, because they prey on others. Sloppy, maddening, and destructive.

The Koch brothers seem to be behind most, if not all, of the nasty, bad stuff going on kestrel91316 May 2013 #1
Even with STALIN. patrice May 2013 #9
A clear and present danger that is going forward daily, all around us. freshwest May 2013 #2
General! Strike!!! against being held HOSTAGE by the NRA!!!! patrice May 2013 #8
Not likely. We can't even agree on May Day here. freshwest May 2013 #10
Solidarity any way!, he, he . . . :-))) How are you? patrice May 2013 #13
Tired of the ratfucking. Hope you're doing well. I edited that other comment. freshwest May 2013 #14
Me too. Such a waste. We just had another family wedding, so I'm tired too! patrice May 2013 #18
I'm not sure that we have going on right now isn't a de facto armed rebellion. Congress is fucked & patrice May 2013 #3
There have been stochastic killings and assaults. People are not being allowed to assemble to do freshwest May 2013 #11
USERS. patrice May 2013 #12
Some would call what the KochBros and the 44% fascists are doing, treason. BlueCaliDem May 2013 #4
I stand with you on that, BlueCaliDem. It's Treasonous EXTORTION or maybe FRACKETEERING. patrice May 2013 #6
From the comments on the Politicusa page, things I'd heard briefly, compressed: freshwest May 2013 #16
What's so crazy is that ANYONE could disagree about backgound checks on people who WANT TO SHOOT patrice May 2013 #5
Me to FB just now: Regarding USA being held hostage by NRA's PRIVATE ARMY GUNS, patrice May 2013 #7
I hear you! But what are the FOUR!!!! fingers!? Always meant to ask. freshwest May 2013 #15
That's from Orwell's 1984. It's a cry of resistance against propaganda and silly fairy tales patrice May 2013 #17
Significant K&R Fire Walk With Me May 2013 #19
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